Europe froze the assets of a departing army and thereby prevented it from departing.
Nobody drafted that. It is the single most consequential unintended effect of the entire crisis and it came out of a payments annex.
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Tom Halstead
@TomHalstead
·26 Jan 2026 · 17:20
The retrograde has started. ~38,000 personnel and families out of Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain. Largest movement out of Europe since 1990. And it is already stuck, for a reason nobody planned: the asset freeze broke the…